“That’s [Barclays Premier League survival] done, we won’t worry about that
now.” Alan Pardew, March 11 Having just moved nine points clear of the
relegation zone with a 2-1 victory at home to Stoke City, Alan Pardew’s
confidence that Newcastle United were out of trouble was understandable.
Three weeks and two successive defeats on, though, the Newcastle manager’s
words are in danger of coming back to haunt him. So would he now agree that
was a rather premature statement to make?

“After the Stoke game I said that was an important win for us and put us in a
position